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f if McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C-. THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941 If WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) •*^EW YORK.—In 1918, there was a tall, gangling young man in charge of a crew of men who were making lewisite gas, in a hide-out Chemical Expert Speaks Softly, So eran officer Nothing Blow. Up “ e ders in a low tone of voice and speak slowly and cautiously. There were human and chemical tensions there, intermingling, and a sharp word might twitch a workman’s nerve and cause trouble. That might have been good training for a college president- to-be. At any rate, they made Dr. James Bryant Conant presi dent of Harvard, in 1936. He has continued to speak softly and to get results without anything blowing op, and now President Roosevelt picks him to head a scientific mission'to Britain. He was a major in the newly or ganized chemical warfare service in the days when he was making lew isite gas. Within a few years of the day when he took his Harvard doctorate, in 1917, he was famed here and abroad as one of the world’s leading research chemists. •If our leasing and lending includes 'specialized 'brains, we could' not have sent a scientist more compe tent to devise defenses against gas attack, or, perhaps to solve some new Nazi chemical ruthlessness, of which, it is reported, the British war office has evidence. He is a pioneer and expert in gas warfare and defense, but he hates war and as an educator has worked diligently to out- mode and banish forever his war gases. He hastened to en list when we entered the World war. A friend persuaded him that he would be much more useful in gas research for the bureau of mines. From this bu reau he iater was transferred to the chemical warfare service. He is an Alpinist, still climbing mountains at the age of 48.' In 1937, he scaled North Palisade mountain in the California Sierra, a hazardous climb of 14,254 feet. Dur ing the previous winter, he had bro ken his collar-bone while skiing. He - is blue-eyed, with rather severe ped agogical spectacles, which make him look scientific, and a warm, ready smile which makes him look human. His father was a photo-engraver of Dorchester, Mass. There was some sniffing among the Brahmins when the professor of chemistry became president of Harvard. But Charles W. Eliot had been a pro fessor of chemistry and had scored heavily in the humanities—as did Dr. Conant. So there was prece dent for that appointment, but pos sibly not for his present appoint ment. The tradition of the absent- minded professor fades in an era of highly specialized knowledge. DERHAPS more than any other * one man. Sir Robert Brooke-Pop- ham saw the need for wings over the British empire and worked hard British Far East and .} on Z t0 provide them. Air Chief Took a As command- Long View Ahead toe^r ^East today, with tension mounting hourly |on land and sea, he may take credit tfor strengthening air defenses to the farthest outpost of Britain’s domin- lions. He attended Sandhurst and en tered the army. He was at the front in France from the first to the last gunshot. Twenty years ago he began campaigning and agitating for an empire matrix of commer cial and military airlines, pre dicting an hour of peril when only such unity and co-operation of scattered air forces could hold the empire together. He was one of the originators of the British commonwealth air train ing plan; established the Royal Air Force college in London and became commandant of the Im perial Defense college. He built Canada’s $600,000,000 empire air force which just now is greatly strengthening Britain’s hopes with its 40,000 students and its daily yield of skilled fliers for the defense of Britain. A lean, hard man of clipped, astringent speech, comparable only to a blow-torch in his powers of con centration, he is in his general make up a planned personality. He is 63 years old, hard as nails and as whippy as a pole-vaulter. He was born Robert Moore, the son of a country clergyman. For reasons of his own, he was not satisfied to be Robert Moore. Characteristical ly, he did something about it. He procured royal dispensation to be come Robert Brooke-Popham. Then, possibly in some pattern of numer ology, came a career to fit the name. Guard British Aid to Greece T’ r V; * ^ mm I ••Wff‘MflBKnViV* ■Xf-fr-A- ySS ^ ant New Fighters for Uncle Sam’s Air Force Interior view of the huge Curtiss-Wright plant in Buffalo, N. Y., showing the mass assembling of the* new Curtiss P-40 pursuit ships for the U. S. army air corps. This plant turns out 10 planes daily, and will goon increase this number as additional trained mechanics are put to work in the new plant buildings. When Enemies Become Allies Found Years Later For the moment at least, enemies become allies to help a wounded soldier. A British officer and an Italian prisoner are shown in this sound- photo carrying an Italian casualty at Bengasi, Libya, to an ambulance. Another wounded soldier is on the ground awaiting assistance from the friendly enemies. British Convalescent Home Kept Busy Wrecked plane of Charles Stanton, of Dorchester, Mass., which disapt- peared with its five passengers June 20, 1937. It was recently found by four farmers in a jungle near San Jose, Costa Rica—its passengers a tangled heap of bones. Canada’s Navy on Job tm- BPiii Vi dnlllH At a hospital in the northeast section of England wounded Royal Air Force pilots and girls of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force are now “in mending.’’ The hospital is used by the R. A. F. and the W. A. A. F. Pic- toi* shows convalescents walking about the grounds. Two officers of the Royal Canadi an navy watch over a convoy from the bridge of their destroyer. With the increasing flow of war materials to Britain, Canada is kept busy. 10 $ Three powerful units of the British fleet are seen off the Rock of Gibraltar as they helped cover passage of convoys through the Mediterranean to Greece. The warships are (left to right) aircraft carrier Ark Royal, an unidentified battleship, and dreadnaught, Renown. (Insert) British destroyers making high-speed turns when attacked by enemy aircraft while convoying ships through Mediterranean. ^irWE^SCREEN*! By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) I F RALPH MURPHY, Para mount director, needed to make a little extra money he coulcLwrite a book entitled “Ten Lessons on How to Catch a Man” and the shekels would roll in. Here’s what he has to say about it. (He’s a graduate of Syracuse university, has been a stage and motion picture actor, producer and director for years, so he’s qualified to talk.) “I have three girls in ‘Las Vegas Nights.’ Each would use a differ ent technique. Each technique would re quire eight reels to fold. So—I let Con stance Moore get her man with the di rect-approach tech nique. I give Vir ginia Dale a man before the picture starts, and I leave Lillian Cornell out on a limb with nary a male in sight. “The allure tech nique is used by a woman conscious of the fact that she has an enormous amount of feminine appeal for men—a screen example would be Hedy Lamarr. Flattery is used by women ranging from the baby-talk girls to the moth ering type. There’s the girl who gives the impression that she’s help less; men want to stand between her and the world—Bonnie Baker’s an example. “There’s the girl who uses the di rect approach; spots the man she wants and makes no bones about it; she’s a good sport, a play mate, and picks a man with the same characteristics. Bar bara Stanwyck’s a screen example. And the coquette, whose eyes say ‘if you chase me I’ll run— but not too far.’ Like Virginia Dale on the screen. “Then there’s the one who is not brilliant and not dull, not beautiful and not homely; every girl asks ‘What’s she got?’ The answer is ‘She’s got the man that a lot of other girls wanted.’ ” * 3TJ Constance Moore Virginia Dale Some other girl may have Errol Flynn for a husband now; Olivia de Haviland’s married him five times —on the screen—and when she fin ished “Santa Fe Trail’’ she fled to the equally ardent arms of James Cagney, in “Strawberry Blonde.” She was a little dubious about it; after all, Cagney’s had a bad movie reputation where women were con cerned since he squashed that grapefruit in a lady’s face. But Olivia is safe in this one—he’s cast as a belligerent dentist who gets into plenty of fights, but all with men. '—*— Twenty-four of the show girls in “Ziegfeld Girl” voted for their fa vorite movie actress the other day. Vivian Leigh got eight votes, and Bette Davis and Greta Garbo each got five. But—Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr couldnit be voted for. They’re in the picture. Billy the Kid has finally joined the side of law and order. It happened recently near Tucson, Ariz., where Robert Taylor was made a deputy sheriff of Pima county. Taylor plays the fast-shooting desperado of the 1870s in Metro’s picture, “Billy the Kid,” which was on location in the Southwest at the time Taylor took over his duties. They were shooting scenes on the Double U ranch in Pima county when Sheriff Ed Echols paid the troupe a visit and pinned a shiny new badge on the star’s shirt. —£— Burgess Meredith rarely wears a hat, but he’s exceptionally well pro vided with places to hang one. At present he has four homes. (1) His 200-year-old farmhouse in Rockland county, N. Y. (2) Jimmy Stewart’s bachelor establishment in Brent wood, where he has stayed on his previous Hollywood sojourns. (3) The house in West Los Angeles which belongs to Wayne Morris, which he and Franchot Tone rent; it’s known as Annex No. 1 to Stew art’s abode. (4) . A small beach house which he rented at Santa Monica, called Annex No. 2—he took it with the idea of week-ending there, but so far has been so busy that he’s hardly seen it. But he has hopes, now that he’s completing his work in United Artists’ “That Uncertain Feeling.” * ODDS AND ENDS—Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Hart in Honolulu listened to radio's Hilltop House” last year, and liked the story and its star, Bess Johnson, so much that they named iheir home for the serial. Recently Miss Johnson learned that all her Hatvaiian Islands' mail is be ing delivered to the Harts! . . . For the betterment of Latin-American relations. Parks Johnson and Wally Buttenvorth are making a ten-thousand-mile junket to Mexico City, Puerto Rico and Havana, for three "Vox Pop'' broadcasts . . . 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